mr. andrews, i we will ask you, is the department reviewing the work on cyber security protections? and what are you going to do about it in the future? >> thank you, and as you know, we have discussed that in previous conversations cyber is a challenging area for the nation and large companies, but i am happy to tell you we are collaborating closely with the department of homeland security, adding resources to the organization so that it is built into our planning, our technical planning and, of course, be a major part of our proposal. proposal. it is a high priority, and i think we are leveraging resources properly within the government. i am always open to suggestions. >> are you going to having enough money? >> it is probably too early to answer that specifically because we are just now looking at the planning process. we believe that business models are sufficient to build up this network and have incorporated those assumptions and to our financial model. at this time i do not see difficulty with that but like everything we do with firstnet everything is new. there were things

mr. andrews. welcome. >> good morning, chairman thune ranking member nelson, and members of the committee. thank you for inviting me here today to testify. i feel a special affinity for firstnet because i actually worked on the staff of this committee when senator rockefeller and senator hutchison originally conceived of firstnet. and as we all know this mission arose as a result in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. when the work of our brave first responders was seriously impaired by the problems with communications. we at the department are proud of our active role in haeping to stand up and support this important program. this is a difficult mission but we are confident that firstnet is making strong progress towards meeting its goals. a nationwide first responder network, a key recommendation of the 9/11 commission, will enhance public safety communications across agencies, and jurisdictions. congress established firstnet as an independent authority within the department's national telecommunicati

mr. andrews. if you can keep the comments con confined to five minutes. >> good morning chairman ranking member nelson and member of the committee. thank you for having me testify. i worked on the staff of this committee when senator rock feller and hutchinson conceived of safe net and this mission erose in the wake of the 9/11 attacks when the work of the first responder was impaired by the problem with communication. we are proud of ow role helping to stand up and support this program. this is a difficult mission but we are confidant first net is making strong progress toward meeting its goals. a nationwide first responder network will enhance safety public communications across agencies and jurisdictions. first net is an independent authority within the national tell communication and information administration to develop and maintain this network. this is one of the most significant initiatives and it is challenging the self sustaining world class network within the government. that has challe

mrs. andrews?nk life. >> thank you both. >> that is -- >> go ahead, finish. . >> i don't think anything less than life is coming close to his -- what he did to our young men and women. >> matt and sandra thank you for being with us appreciate it i want to mention an important event. second annual darren andrews memorial golf tournament, raising money to support students of this community. for more information go to darren andrews memorial.org. coming up next, the question of why are all these people so asleep yet i'm so awake? did you know your brain has two systems? one helps keep you awake- the other helps you sleep. science suggests when you have insomnia, the wake system in your brain may be too strong and your neurotransmitters remain too active as you try to sleep, which could be leading to your insomnia. ohh...maybe that's what's preventing me from getting the sleep i need! talk to your doctor about ways to manage your insomnia. you pay your auto insurance premium every month on the dot. you

mrs. andrews? . >> i think life. >> thank you both. >> that is -- >> go ahead, finish. . >> i don't think anything less than life is coming close to his -- what he did to our young men and women. >> matt and sandra thank you for being with us appreciate it i want to mention an important event. second annual darren andrews memorial golf tournament, raising money to support students of this community. for more information go to darren andrews memorial.org. coming up next, the question of the day, your input, straight ahead. to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. you pay your auto insurance premium every month on the dot. you're like the poster child for paying on time. and then one day you tap the bumper of a station wagon. no big deal... until your insurance company jacks up your rates. you freak out. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it? hey insurance companies, news flash. nobod

mr. andrew graft from the golden gate law school to speak to you regarding the statistics so far that have been gathered from the monitor and the community has not had access to that information except to the public information act that is requested through the law school we're concerned that with the high reach etc. vacation of the park at the same level as the community we're concerned about this asbestos and the dust that will travel into the neighborhood and we do not have a asbestos monitor or a dust monitor that place in the neighborhood as a buffer to give us the reading hass as to the amount and the focus of the neighborhood is being had from the demolition and the dust so i'm going to - we also have ms. marilyn from the visitacion valley and also another colleague we'll be speaking to convey you you our concerns about the effectiveness of the monitor and that's required we continually to come before you to address those issues and hopefully by now if we can get this right to protect the community while this demolition is going on it will be a great thing to do because to get this

mr. andrews. if you can keep the comments con confined to five minutes. >> good morning chairman ranking member nelson and member of the committee. thank you for having me testify. i worked on the staff of this committee when senator rock feller and hutchinson conceived of safe net and this mission erose in the wake of the 9/11 attacks when the work of the first responder was impaired by the problem with communication. we are proud of ow role helping to stand up and support this program. this is a difficult mission but we are confidant first net is making strong progress toward meeting its goals. a nationwide first responder network will enhance safety public communications across agencies and jurisdictions. first net is an independent authority within the national tell communication and information administration to develop and maintain this network. this is one of the most significant initiatives and it is challenging the self sustaining world class network within the government. that has challe

mr. andrews. chief bryant. >> ranking member nelson and members of the committee come at the international association of the fire chief represents more than 11,000 in the fire medical services. i would like to think the committee for the opportunity to provide public safety perspective on the need for the nationwide public safety broadband network and to examine the progress made by the first responder network authority or firstnet. the goal of building the nationwide public safety broadband network to meet the needs of the first responders is a matter of critical importance for public safety while the task will not be easy they believe it is developing the leadership of the staff and support from the state public safety and other key stakeholders required to take the network a reality. as a fire chief and firefighter responded to the numerous events including natural disasters. i know firsthand the benefits that the first network stands to offer in terms of improving the communications, coordina

mr. andrews, i think it is essential to harden against cyber security because other than your every day natural disaster but when it is not a natural disaster whatever is attacking us is going to be attacking us with cyber simultaneously. what are you going to do? >> sen., cyber security is a a high priority for the department. we recognize it is a serious issue that needs to be addressed as part of the firstnet buildout. not only are we working to make sure they have the support they need but our cio is involved our team is involved and we are working hand-in-hand with firstnet to make sure they have the resources not just from the department but from across the government, the best expertise available including a number of experts who have been involved. >> i have met and you are going to need to work with them. you're going to your going to need to work with some of our intelligence agencies because the technology is so rapidly changing in these areas of the kind of sophisticated attacks that can occur and if we are talking about a terrorist attack you all are going to have to be able to com

mentioned supervisor cowen andrew and wanting mr. gomez will be speaking and other folks from the building committee and there are two community members who were invited to speak after dozens and will be coming next week to serve the final vote as general council i led the council on the mexican museum for the long term lease to be moved to the full board the combined 99 year lease is extremely well-thought-out and we worked on it for over a year part of the negotiations included folks in the room as well as others for the mexican museum think outside the box on behalf of team i want to thank the team who represented the city starting with john updyke

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mrs. andrews said we found all of his stuff. and when you leave all of that stuff behind your weapon and body armor, it is pretty clear what your intentions were, and i am sure that he did not want to come back and he left on his own fruition. >> i want to play for you, josh some of what heis attorney told my colleague anderson cooper. >> i think that once people have a case of what he sis, and some of the people may rue some of the dreadful things that he they have been say ging. >> what do you think that he means when he says their motivations? >> well, the only thing thing is that bergdahl knows what why he left and i saw something earlier that the lawyer refused to answer the question of why he left, so i can't imagine that there is some significant reason that is going to be just falling out of the sky that is going to be justifying what he did. >> sondra what do you mean by his motivations? >> i'm not sure. i agree. i don't know what his motivation would be. all i know is that he put a whole group, several brigades there i

abernathy, of mrs. andrew young. and because of what happened to him, he made a decision to march.in selma, alabama in 1965, only 2.1% of blacks of age to vote were registered to vote. the only place you could do it was at the courthouse. he had to pass a so-called literally test. on one occasion, a man was asked [indiscernible] on another occasion, to count the number of jelly beans in a jar. through african lawyers, doctors, teachers, housewives, college professors that flunked the so-called literally test. -- literacy test. so we started to march. it got to the top of the bridge, we saw alabama state troopers. we continued to walk. we came within hearing distance. a man identified himself and said, i major john cloud of the alabama state troopers. this is an unlawful march and you will not be allowed to continue. i give you three minutes to disperse and return to your church. one of the young people walking with me leading the march, josÉ williams, who was on the staff of dr. martin luther king, junior said, major, give us a moment of inquiry. he said, troopers, advance. you saw

mr. andrews other neighbors here working at reforming their neighborhood town watch. meanwhile detectives carefully going through still more video. they are looking for a clear, identifying picture of the faces of the three killers and they say if they get that, they may well release it to the public, so that the public can help catch the killers. live from overbrook park i'm walt hunter for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" good walt thanks very much. >>> in weather it was a gorgeous day to day temperatures soared in the 60's, some spots even hit 70. "eyewitness news" in center city philadelphia where, some folks broke out short sleeves. but we hope that they and you enjoyed it the because temperatures are already starting to fall. we have a drastic drop coming. our meteorologist kathy orr is live outside on a very windy sky deck with what we should expect kathy. >> what a beautiful afternoon chris, it is still comfortable, nothing like around the the midday hour though, noon or 1:00 o'clock when we reached our high temperatures for the day. right now i can feel a cool breeze

mr. andrews what are ntia anissa doing to further the 911 operations? >> that is a great question as one of the things we have done in partnership between ntia and in senator gardner stayed in boulder we have created a public safety communications research program which is our effort to push forward into the next generation of public safety. as you know as well ntia administers the nextgen 91911 program that's something we are working on. smack very good. we should invite senator gardner to join our 911 caucus. it's a very exciting group. we have a lot of emergencies that we respond to. my last question ms. swanson i understand minnesota was the second state to have its -- with firstnet last september. what were some of the takeaways of that meeting with the stakeholders? >> as i indicated earlier it is important that we learn from each of the states the individual circumstances. every state has a set of circumstances that are very different. your topography is different and your priorities are different and we are learning and each of those consultatio

mr. amber griffith. -- andrew griffith. >> i bring the house good news. for the first time in 10 years beer sales are up. the campaign for real ale [inaudible] a newspaper today, which champions [inaudible] says the chancellor is poised to repeat the cuts. assure us that this government is on the side of brewers. >> first of all, can i praise the honorable gentleman for the work he has done to support the beer industry, to support written's pubs, and stand up for local communities where the pub is often the hub of the village. this government has been a good friend the beer industry. i am delighted by the figures. it goes to show, life is better under the conservatives. thank you, mr. speaker. >> prosecuting people who do not paint a minimum wages the politics of an envy. >> press accusing people for not paying the minimum wage is the right thing to do. we have made sure the resources are there for that to happen. let me give her the figures. we have now got a 3200 penalty of an issue for nonpayment of the minimum wage amounting to nearly 3 million pounds

mr. andrews, what are ntia doing to further the next gen 911 operations in coordination with firstnet. >> that's a great question. one of the things we've done is between -- in a partnership between ntia and in senator gardner's state in boulder we've created the public safety communications research program, which is our effort to really push forward into that next generation of public safety communications. as you know as well, the ntia, the next gen 911 program and that's something we're working on. >> we should invite senator gardner to join our 911 caucus. it's a very exciting group. we have a lot of emergencies that we respond to. my last question miss swenson, i understand that minnesota was the second state to have its consultation with firstnet last september. what are some of the takeaways from that meeting with the stakeholders in minnesota? >> i think as i indicated earlier, i think it's important that we learn from each of the states their individual circumstances. every state has a set of circumstances that are very different. your topography is different. where your priorit

mr. andrews, what are you doing to further the nextgen 911 operations in coordination with firstnet? >> that is a great question. one of the things we've done is between, a partnership between conakry the public safety communications research program which is our effort to really push forward into the next generation of public safety communication. as you know as well in tia addresses the nextgen 911 program at something we're working on. >> then we should invite senator gardner to join our 911 caucus. it's very exciting the group. [laughter] [laughter] we have a lot of emergencies that we respond to. my last question ms. swenson, i understand minnesota was the second state to its consultation with firstnet last september. what are some takeaways from that meeting with the stakeholders? >> i think as indicated earlier i think it's important that we learn from each of the states, the individual circumstances. every state has a set of circumstances that are very different. your typography is different, where your priorities are different and we are learning and each of those consultati

mr. hillen is not going to be attending but in case he is here he can come. okay he is not. so we'll go on to the next, who is andrew sullivan. mr. sullivan maybe had to leave as well. dan kito is not going to be attending and i don't see anyone named dan kito standing up, so mr. flan nigan, you are back. welcome to the rules committee. >> thank you very much. i will keep this brief. i would like to reapply for seat no. 4. i have been chair of the council the last two years. i basically once i got to become chair i led a strategic planning process to try to identify the areas of interest and necessity for us to study to be relevant to the board of supervisors and the mayor. for the last two years we have basically followed that road map and we have made some great progress on studying issues around mount davidson, we are currently in the middle of trying to come up with best management practices in order to deal with historic tree stands in san francisco in order to review issues such as sin wrap that you coming in front of the board and we would like to come before the board for or against sin wrap that touch on ur

mr. rice. >> andrew did you ever have to do something you felt really uncomfortable doing as part of thedge? >> well absolutely. that's what i write about in the book. it's a whole culture of hazing that is disgusting dangerous. could potentially be deadly and it has deep psychological and emotional impacts on people. >> like what? >> you know like depression like a feeling of alienation. like you know the attitudes we see in oklahoma. being developed. on different levels misogyny violence towards women and arrogance towards the outside world and we need to call all of these ideas into question and talk how they form the core of the white fraternity core in america. >> thank you both so much for being here with me. >>> up next breaking news out of ferguson. just getting word after a series of resignations fouling a scathing report on the discrimination inside the police department there along with the court system now infamous police chief, there may be willing to step down. details right after this. you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when

appearing to give you a couple of upgrades on the mexican museum as mentioned supervisor cowen andrew and wanting mr. gomez will be speaking and other folks from the building committee and there are two community members who were invited to speak after dozens and will be coming next week to serve the final vote as general council i led the council on the mexican museum for the long term lease to be moved to the full board the combined 99 year lease is extremely well-thought-out and we worked on it for over a year part of the negotiations included folks in the room as well as others for the mexican museum think outside the box on behalf of team i want to thank the team who represented the city starting with john updyke who just spoke and tom and rebecca from the arts commission and tiffany and chris 10 from the accessory our agency and to very capable and distinguished council who is now general council for the museum thank you to each and every and everyone and particular to john who was supportive every step of the way and thank you to the museum partners shawn and mark and also christine moore tog

mr. chair you and commissioner andrews have convinced me of the merit of what you said in that my initial rush for this towards the november ballot mainly comes from a certain weariness of the idea we put something off and it never happens or what we're doing it in due time and due time never occurs but in terms of our discussion we are all seemed to be agreed that this certainly merits consideration and record that would then allow it to be on a ballot if we find it has that worth and i agree that it is better to do it correctly rather than to rush with my confidence in terms of hearing my fellow commissioners we're indeed going to go ahead and pursue this i'm going to pickup on what commissioner andrews said i don't feel we need to be vested to the november ballot but to putting it on the ballot. >> if i can call our motion or you want to restate a new motion. >> i think it is the same motion but rather than any define active language about the nova ballot only the commission put this on the ballot for the voters. >> second again second it. >> second. >> all in favor. >> i. >> i. >> by

mr. chair you and commissioner andrews have convinced me of the merit of what you said in that my initial

he had an mri last week it shows irritation he's had one doctor look at the mr now doctor james andrewthis week but lee doesn't sound too optimistic. >> basic physical i had the surgery this season would be done and possibly my career i guess. i mean i don't know. >> doesn't sound good. preseason baseball to sarasota the phillies and baltimore. that's andre spolaco hitting into the hotdogs and hamburgers in short left field. the only run of the game. that must have been exciting preseason game. phillies win one to nothing. >> villanova ranked fourth in the country. it's the beginning of the tournament season. nova plays their first big east tournament game against seton hall or marquette. not tough competition they lost last year in the first round to seton hall. still number two seed last year ncaaa tournament but maybe a lesson learned. >> i just feel like, you know when say to them, anything can happen we got to be prepared to play. they lived it. they lived losing in the first round. they lived getting beat in the second round of the tournament. they understand your point a lot mor

. >> andre andrews was walk his dog mr. cocoa on woodcrest of a friday morning just like james stoleman was thursday night when he was shot to death a block from his home. >> a nice guy landscaper always with his daughter and his wife. >> andrews says stoleman walk with his dog molly every night. he was shocked by the murder. >> i upset. couldn't hold it in. >> reporter: detectives say stoleman was found unresponsive on the ground around mid block on woodcrest just after 8:30 thursday night. his dog molly sitting right next to him. police discovered he'd been shot in the in the chest. >> does not appear to be a robbery however his wallet was still on him. he had cash on him. >> reporter: neighbors a woke to find police bulletins on their wind she'll. they say violence here is extremely rare. car breaks in and burglaries are the on crimes in this area. >> he's walking his dog through the neighborhood and someone comes up and kills him. it's very tragic. it's very sad. and we will get to the bottom of it hopefully very quickl

be included in the actual mark-up, so the issues that we have at andrews international is when i look at as i receive the letter from mr. patel he states those two positions should not have been billed, then why sit on cypress', as i look at their contract, the two of the positions are listed. the badging clerk and then also the ada, so i ask this board to consider the facts that are rfp was not written correctly and that we studied it, we put our information together. if you say to us that 6 positions that they have here are not supposed to be billed, this is on their rfp and then you turn around and let cypress security do this, it's a big problem. i ask the board to really consider this and i ask the board to call for a special investigation. >> thank you, thank you. >> brad lower. >> good afternoon, my name's brad lower as peter stated, when we bid on the security program, we were selected as the top bidder and entered in negotiations in good faith. however, we have some concerns with how the negotiations were handled as well as the response we received dated march 16th in response to our letter of protest about th

andrew? >> mr. chairman i want to go back to the issue about the president just far moment.dent coming out so publicly and vocally about the policies and net neutrality? because to some degree critics would suggest that it raised questions about your independence. but would you have preferred he stayed quiet while you were allowed to come out publicly yourself first? >> >> oh, my golly, andrew. the presidents have historically always commented on major decisions at the fcc. and as i said i mean the president and i have both been strongly pro-open internet throughout the existence of this as an issue. i mean there are 4 million comments that were filed. the president was one of them. >> mr. commissioner as i understand it, among the rules that are in this you are -- there are provisions allowing regulators to determine whether a provider's pricing and practices are just in reasonable, and you used the "fair" word which makes me nervous when the government starts decides b fairness. and a consumer group or internet company or anyone believes a broadband provider is in violatio

. >> reporter: andrew andrews was out walking his dog mr. cocoa on woodcrest friday morning just like james stoleman was thursday night when he was shot to death a lock from his home. >> a nice guy. landscaper. always with his daughter and his wife. >> reporter: stoleman walk his dog molly every night. he was shocked by the murder. >> i was upset. couldn't hold it in. >> detectives say stoleman was found unresponsive on the ground around mid block on woodcrest just after 8:30 thursday night. his dog molly sitting right next to him. that's when police discovered he had been shot in the chest. >> it does not appear to be a robbery however his wallet was still on him. did he have cash on him. >> reporter: police a woke to find police bulletins on their windshield. they say violence is extremely rare. car break ins and burglaries are and the crimes in this area. >> he's walking his dog in the neighborhood. someone comes up and kills him. it's tragic, very sad. we'll get to the bomb to have of it very quickly. >> mario was out walking his dog fri

be included in the actual mark-up, so the issues that we have at andrews international is when i look at as i receive the letter from mr. patel he states those two positions should not have been billed, then why sit on cypress', as i look at their contract, the two of the positions are listed. the badging clerk and then also the ada, so i ask this board to consider the facts that are rfp was not written correctly and that we studied it, we put our information together. if you say to